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BLACK
SHEEP
In the footsteps of 28 Weeks Later, and the Canadian horror/comedy
Fido, comes Black Sheep, substituting your typical human zombies
with hordes of - you guessed it - zombie sheep. Black Sheep
kicks into action right from the beginning when animal rights
activists sabatoge a genetics experiment which results in
crazed, killer sheep running amok amidst the spacious New
Zealand countryside. Director Jonathan King's film blends
comedy and horror to the extreme and the special effects,
designed by the geniuses at Peter Jackson's WETA Works (who
also did the amazing effects on The Lord of the Rings trilogy
and the King Kong remake), are top-notch. And while a sheep
may not seem like a frightening villain for a horror movie,
a couple hundred hungry zombie sheep closing in behind you
certainly are.
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BROKEN
ENGLISH
Indie queen Parker Posey stars in this Romanic comedy as Nora
Wilder, a dynamic New-Yorker in her thirties with a cynical
outlook on love. Between her critical, overbearing mother
(Gena Rowlands, Zoe Cassavetes’s real-life mother) and
her best friend Audrey’s (Drea De Matteo) perfect marriage,
Nora hopelessly goes through a never-ending slew of disappointing
first dates. But when a mysterious and animated Frenchman
(Melvil Poupaud) stumbles into her life, she impulsively hops
on a plane to Paris and gives true romance one last shot.
Writer-director Zoe Cassavetes, daughter of distinguished
independent filmmaker John Cassavetes, makes her debut with
a stellar international cast. More than a Sex and the City
meets cross-cultural romance, Broken English plunges into
the depths of self-doubt, relationships, and societal pressures.
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TEN
FILMS STILL NOT ON DVD
New viewing technology allows audiences to see a film with
astounding visual clarity and a pitch perfect soundtrack.
The problem, however, with HD-DVD’s, BluRay’s
and DVD’s in general, is that it's hard to go back and
"update" the millions of films that have been released
in the past one hundred years. This list is incredibly small
and in no way represents the "best" films not available
on DVD. But here are ten films that are important entries
in cinematic history and deserve restoration for a new generation
of viewers. Click
here to see the list.
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DANIEL
ROBERT EPSTEIN, R.I.P.
I didn't know Daniel Robert Epstein personally, but I read
and admired the smart, cinephilic and always entertaining
interviews he'd do with film directors over at the Suicide
Girls site and he would often link to them here. Now, Epstein
is reportedly dead at 31. There are few details, but click
on the link for some remembrances from Missy Suicide and,
at current count, over 300 other posters...
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DROP BY TO SEE THE HONEYDRIPPERS
A couple of months ago, we premiered exclusive footage from
John Sayles' forthcoming Honeydripper. If you live in New
York and you want to get another advance taste from what promises
to be a great movie, you should stop by the World Financial
Center Plaza tomorrow at 7pm. Sayles himself is introducing
a one-off performance by the Honeydripper Allstar Band, who
will be playing blues and rock 'n' roll from the film. Honeydripper
will be released next year by Emerging Pictures.
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THE
DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS - TAIKA WAITITI, EAGLE VS SHARK
To describe Taika Waititi as simply a filmmaker would be to
do him a disservice. Just watching him as he talks - fiddling
with anything and everything within reach, getting up and
walking around the room, constantly active - it's apparent
that his inherent energy and enthusiasm make it impossible
for him to focus on just one thing. He first rose to prominence
in his native New Zealand as part of the comedy duo Humourbeast
(along with Eagle vs Shark's leading man, Jemaine Clement),
and was later named New Zealand's best stand-up comic; at
the same time, he was pursuing careers as an actor, painter
and photographer. The first short film he made, Two Cars,
One Night (2004), was nominated for an Academy Award, which
helped him get funding for his first feature, Eagle vs Shark.
Click
here for the rest of the article
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